Chanel No. 5 Heartbreak

TimeWarpWife said:

Guerlain has already kow-towed to the IFRA asinine rules and both Mitsouko and L'heure Bleue have gone from being beautiful classic fragrances to smelling like chemical messes. And now they've got No. 5 in their sites. Grrrrrrrrrr! The IFRA is nothing but a front for people who don't like perfume in order to force the rest of us to stop wearing it. IMHO, the IFRA and their ilk need to go take a long walk off a short pier and mind their own business!

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Dixie_Amazon said:

I need replacement suggestions for Chanel No. 5.

I have been wearing Chanel No. 5 for thirty-five years and this summer my skin started breaking out wherever I applied it. I currently have little bumps on my neck and wrists from when I wore it last Wednesday.

They may have to reformulate it soon which I think is ridiculous even though I have become one of the minority of those who are allergic to it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...rmulate-under-new-eu-regulations-9451331.html

[video=youtube_share;Wo8UtWiYiZI]http://youtu.be/Wo8UtWiYiZI[/video]

I am going to miss it.

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sheeplady said:

That said, I'm not sure if all this reformulating is even good. What's to say that the new formula won't cause allergies to individuals once they wear it for a period of time? What happens if one of the new ingredients is even worse than the old ones? Despite all the testing, you don't actually know until you release a substance into the wild (so to speak) how it will interact with individuals and situations you could not predict or controlled for in your testing.

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LizzieMaine said:

A lot of personal-care and beauty products are now using a preservative called methylisothiazolinone which causes violent skin reactions in some people -- blisters, scabs, agonizing itchy ratches.

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Grnidwitch said:

No need to stop using Chanel. I have seen caged/filigree charms that you can put a piece of cotton with your perfume on it into the cage.

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LizzieMaine said:

A lot of personal-care and beauty products are now using a preservative called methylisothiazolinone which causes violent skin reactions in some people -- blisters, scabs, agonizing itchy ratches. I myself, it seems, am one of these, and it took me all of last winter to figure out what was going on. Keep an eye out for this on ingredient/formula lists if you're having reactions.

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